Butler

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, ·etc.; the head servant in a large house.

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Butler
Properly a servant in charge of the wine (Gen. 40:1-13; 41:9). The Hebrew word, mashkeh, thus transl...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Butler
One of the officers of the king's household, (Nehemiah 1:11) who had charge of the wine and poured i...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Butler, Joseph
(1692-1752) Theologian, b. at Wantage, s. of a Presbyterian linen-draper, was destined for the mini...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Butler, Samuel
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Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Butler Street
East out of Milton Street, at No. 69, to Moor Lane (P.O. Directory). In cripplegate Ward Without. F...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Butler, Sir William Francis
G.C.B. (b. 1838) Traveller and biographer. The Great Lone Land (1872), The Wild North Land (1873),...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Yeats, William Butler
(b. 1865) Poet. The Wanderings of Oisin (1889), The Countess Kathleen (1892), The Celtic Twilight (...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin